ICYMI: Insurance Scam Leader Faces 280 Years, Sandy Sewer Backups, Street Named For Ed Eisenberg
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and sign up for our daily newsletter. If you have any news tips, story ideas, questions or anything else, email us at editor@sheepsheadbites.com.
- The convicted leader of the largest no-fault auto insurance scheme ever uncovered faces 280 years in prison.
- Patience is waning for the state’s plan to fix the sewage backup plans that occurred during Superstorm Sandy.
- A Manhattan Beach street corner was named in honor of community activist Ed Eisenberg.
- Cops recovered cocaine, heroin, and a samurai sword during a halloween raid in Sheepshead Bay.
- Pamela Harris became the first African-American to represent the 46th Assembly District.
- Roxanne Persaud swept the election to take the senate seat vacated by John Sampson.
- Spurred by the tragic Midwood fire, which claimed the lives of seven children, the city launched the largest smoke alarm distribution program in the country.
- Retro Grill’s kosher burger is protein heaven.
- The Sheepshead Nursing & Rehabilitation Center threw a lavish party to celebrate its new rehab facility.
- Police are searching for a Sheepshead Bay man who went missing after visiting an Avenue U bakery.
- Southern Brooklyn’s elected officials continue to press the MTA for express F train service.
- A middle-of-the-night crash tore up several parked vehicles along Coney Island Avenue.
- Surveillance video shows a thief snatching a wallet at a sushi restaurant.
- Cops are after a suspect who jumped a teen in an elevator in Coney Island.
- Senator Martin Golden is giving free flu shots this month.